infirmities

英 [ɪnˈfɜːmɪtiz]

美 [ɪnˈfɜrmɪtiz]

n.  (长期的)体弱，生病
infirmity的复数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (常指因年迈而)体弱的,虚弱的
  A person who isinfirmis weak or ill, and usually old.
  1. ...her aging, infirm husband.
     她年迈体弱的丈夫
  2. The infirmare people who are infirm.
     年迈体弱者
  3. We are here to protect and assist the weak and infirm.
     我们来这里保护、帮助年迈体弱者。

双语例句

• Can the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault?
  人心难道也能象矮屋下的背脊一样，因痛苦压迫过甚而蜷屈萎缩变为畸形丑态，造成各种不可救药的残废吗？
• To redress these wrongs, sweeping new regulatory powers will treat the infirmities that ail us.
  全新的监管权力将会治愈困扰我们的病痛、纠正这些错误。
• She gave me a long account of her many infirmities.
  她向我详细叙述了她的多种疾病。
• For we have not a high priest, who can not have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.
  因为我们所有的，不是一位不能同情我们弱点的大司祭，而是一位在各方面与我们相似，受过试探的，只是没有罪过。
• He had no patience with the infirmities of human nature.
  他对人性的软弱毫无耐心。
• A few hundred years ago it was socially acceptable to laugh at the infirmities of others; today it is unacceptable.
  曾在几百年前，嘲笑别人的缺陷，还是受到社会接受的。
• Spain, which has almost twice the amount of government debt outstanding as Greece, has well-known infirmities – namely an anaemic economy, an unemployment rate over 20 per cent and a devastating real estate debacle and consequent banking crisis.
  西班牙的未偿付国债规模几乎是希腊的两倍，该国有着众所周知的弱点&即经济死气沉沉，失业率超过20%，房地产市场毁灭性崩盘以及由此导致的银行业危机。
• Many elderly people are isolated because of physical or mental infirmities, or through the loss of friends and family members.
  许多老年人之所以遭受孤单是由于身体或精神有恙或由于失去朋友或家庭成员。
• He shows all the deterioration, the infirmities not of a newborn.
  他全身的机能衰退，这些都不是婴儿的病症。
• We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own.
  我们不懂古代文明的病害，却知道自己文明的疾患。